Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope

Synopsis

At the Personality Plant, robots are constructed and gradually equipped with artificial memories taken from real humans. Suzu is one such robot, created to fill the void left by a family's deceased young son. By chance, he encounters Hotori, a little girl who suffers from a progressive memory disorder. The two children form a friendship and strive to understand their own identities as their memories shift and fade.

Background

The film won the Animax Awards (an anime script-writing competition) in 2004.